Crime has been on the rise in many places across the country, driven largely by increased gun violence that Chuck Wexler of the Police Executive Research Forum says is a result of more guns being sold this year, and less police on the streets. “Chicago Fire” actor Alex Wizeman says he was randomly punched in the face by a stranger on the subway, resulting in two broken orbital bones. A woman narrowly survived being pushed onto the tracks by a man that police described as mentally ill.